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Climategate: Once Respected "Nature" Now Staffed By Moaning Ninnies


"Let us condemn them to reading out their own editorials to each other
until they realize how silly they are, or for all eternity, whichever
be the sooner."


March 12, 2010 - by Christopher Monckton

The once-respected science journal Nature recently published a whining
editorial to the effect that climate scientists are not criminals,
really; that attacks on them by increasingly-skeptical news media are
soooo unfair; and that the fundamental science showing that the planet
is doomed unless the economies of the West are shut down at once is
unchallengeable.

No doubt most climate scientists are not criminals. However, some are.
Many of the two dozen Climategate emailers, who have for years driven
the IPCC process, tampered with peer review in the learned journals,
and fabricated, altered, concealed, or destroyed scientific data are
criminals. Whether they or Nature like it or not, they will eventually
stand trial, and deservedly so.

After all, the biofuel scam that is one of many disfiguring spin-offs
from the “global warming” scare — driven by the poisonous clique of
mad scientists whom Nature so uncritically defends — has taken
millions of acres of farmland away from growing food for people who
need it and towards growing biofuels for clunkers that don’t. Result:
a doubling of world food prices, mass starvation, and death, leading
to food riots in a dozen major regions of the globe.

You won’t have seen much about these riots in the Western news media:
they are too busy reporting on every putative icicle putatively
dribbling in putatively melting Greenland.

Where was Nature when James Hansen — a publicly funded “scientist” and
political agitator “working” for NASA — publicly demanded that anyone
who disagreed with his climate-extremist views be put on trial for
“high crimes against humanity”?

Did Nature write a pompous, pietistic editorial drawing attention to
the fact that the penalty for crimes against humanity is death, and
asking whether demands that one’s scientific opponents should face
potential execution constitute an appropriate contribution to
scientific discourse? Did it heck! Nature was sullenly, culpably
silent.

Hansen wrote a characteristically overblown op-ed in the British
Marxist newspaper the Guardian last year, saying that sea level was
about to rise by 246 feet.

Should I face trial and execution for pointing out, mildly, that
Hansen knows no more about sea-level rise than a hedgehog, and that
even the excitable UN climate panel puts 21st-century sea-level rise
at a maximum of 2 feet?

Where was Nature when Al Gore’s mawkish, sci-fi, comedy-horror movie
came out? Did it ever disclose even one of the three dozen serious
errors or exaggerations in that dismal piece of pseudo-scientific
propaganda? Did it heck! Gore’s climate-extremist views chimed with
Nature’s own, so its editors were sullenly, culpably silent.

Where was Nature when the UN’s climate panel published, three times
and in full color, a graph in its 2007 report purporting to show that
the rate of warming over the past 160 years has itself increased,
allegedly because of anthropogenic CO2 emissions, when the graph
deployed a statistical technique so bogus that any pimply freshman
doing Stats 101 would recognize the graph as tendentious, politicized
nonsense?

Nowhere, that’s where.

The mindless mantra that moaning ninnies like Nature mumble over and
over again is that, notwithstanding one, or several, or hundreds, or
thousands of bloopers in the now-discredited climate “assessments” of
the UN’s climate panel, the science is settled and the debate is over.
Yet the debate rages on and — tell it not in Gath or Ashkelon — the
skeptics are winning.

Nature’s editors, not having reached intellectual puberty, lack the
self-critical skill of examining their own consciences. When they grow
up, they will realize that there is a reason why the skeptics are
winning. It is because the skeptics are right. The science never was
settled, nor was the debate over. CO2 is a bit-part player in the
climate. Get over it and move along. Get a life.

And how come the skeptics are winning, when billions of state-funded
propaganda dollars have been squandered for decades in an ever more
futile attempt to buy the acquiescence of John Q. Public? Your average
voter does not necessarily understand the growing number of scientific
papers establishing, by a variety of measurements, that the UN’s XBox
360s have gotten the models wrong, and that the warming effect of CO2
is around one-seventh of the UN’s vastly-exaggerated central estimate.

But what the man on the crosstown bus can smell a mile off is
propaganda bulls***. Tell him the debate on anything is over and his
antennae will start to twitch. Tell him that because the debate is
over he will have to lose his job and pay higher taxes and gasoline
prices and electricity costs and he will ask what you’re on and
whether he can have some.

The sheer shrillness of the true-believers, such as Nature’s zit-
bespattered editors, has woken up the sleeping giant of public
opinion, and the giant will not go back to sleep however often Nature
maunders on about the fundamental science being agreed among all
parties. After 15 years with no statistically significant “global
warming” (Nature didn’t tell you that), nine years of a rapid global
cooling trend (Nature forgot to mention it), sea level growing at just
1 foot per century (Nature didn’t get around to reporting that), and
sea ice showing no global trend in 30 years (Nature somehow missed
that one), no one is believing the true-believers any more.

I know: let’s put Nature’s editors on trial for high crimes against
journalistic integrity and scientific truth. Death is far too good for
them: let us condemn them to reading out their own editorials to each
other until they realize how silly they are, or for all eternity,
whichever be the sooner.

The Viscount Monckton of Brenchley is a British politician, business
consultant, and policy advisor.